The Sun. — London, England, 1809-02-03 00:00:00

THIRTIETH BULLETIN OF .THE ARMY OF SPAIN. ‘4 Valladolid, Jan. 2 r . a The Duke Dalmatia left Betanzos on the 1::th inst. Having reached the Mero, he found the bridge of Burgo cut. The enemy was dislodged front the village of BUrgo. In the meanwhile Gen. Franceschi ascended the river, which he Crossed at the bridge Of §ela. He made himself master of the high road from Corunna ,to Santiago, and took six officers and Go soldiers prisoners. On the same day a body of marines, who were fetching water from' the Lay near Mero, were taken. Yrotn the village of Perillo, the English fleet could be observed in the harbour of Corunna.. " Qn the 13th, the enemy caused two powder Magazines, situated near the heights of Si. Margaret, at half a league from COrunna, to be blown up. The explbsion was terrible, and' was felt at the distance of three leagues. " On the 14th, the bridge at.Burgo was repaired, and the French artillery was able to pass. The enemy had taken a position at two leagues distance', half a league before Corunna. He was seen employed in hastily 'embarking his sick and wounded, the slumber of which, according , to spies and de serters, amounts to three or four thousand men. The English, were in the meanwhile occupied in destroying the batteries on the coast, and laying waste.' the country on the sea-shore. The Com mandant of the fort of St. Philip, susPeaing the fate intended fur his fortification, refused to admit them in it. • " On the eveniuct of the 14th we saw afresh Con voy of 160 Sail arrive; among which were four Ships of the Line. " On the morning of the 15th, the diviSTons MERLE and MEE!ET occupied the heights of Villa boa, where the enemy's advanced guard teas sta tioned, which was attacked and destroyed. Our right wing was staikto'hi en' the 'point 'where the road from Corunna and:that . frozn Corunna to Santiago, meet. The, left was placed behind the village of Elvina. The enemy was stationed behind Some beautiful heights. " The rest of rlie 1 5 h was spent in fixing a" at- tery of tfa pieces of cannon ; and it was not till:the 16th, at three o'clock in the afternoon, that the • Duke of Dalmatia gave orders to attack. " The assault wa; male upon the Englis s h by the firat brigade of the division of MErtmoT, which overtllr~s hem, and drove them from the village Of . ElviniOgte second regiment of likht intisutry cover ed its4twith glory. Geuetal JALICAN, at - the head the-Voltigeurs wrought a terrible ca:nage. The enemy, driven from his positions, retreated to The gardens which surround Coruuna. " The night growing very (Ink, it wat necessary to suspend the attack. The enemy availed himself of this to embark with precipitation'. c%ly 6000 of our men were engaged, and o'very arrangement was Made for abandoning the positions'Of the night, and ad vancing next day to a general attack. The loss of the enemphas been immense. Two of our batteries played upon them during the whole of the etiogement. - \ye 'counted on the'field'ofbattle snore than 800 of t'[ e deacl bodies, • amwhiC b6dy of General . among` which wag the } fAMItioN, and . thtise 'of i •.ro other General Officers, whose: nambs we are'utaCtiu.titifed With. We'have taken .i..o.ofLers, ata, 4 pieces ,of can , Ifon. 'dile English hayoelt t,hein more than .3500 bories, which 01.1 r 48; amounts to 100 killed and 150 Wounded. „It ; " The Colonel of the 47t1) regiment ,distin; ! ii:.,h ed himself. An ensign , of the. asst infantry killed with his own hand an English officer, who had en deavoured to wrest-from him his . eagle. The Ge neral of Artillery BOMOLAT and Colonel FON'iENAX have signalised themselves. • " At day breakon the t 7th, we saw the English convoy under sail, -On the 18th, - the whOle had dis appeared. ‘c The Duke of Dalmatia had caused a carranade to be (I'l,c:barged upon the Vessels frow tlir fort of Santiago. Several Transports ran . aground, all the , men, who were on board were taken. We found in the establishment.of the Palloza (a manufaanry, &c. in the suburbs of Corutina, Where the English had previously been encamped),. 30 00 Eno iish' muskets. Migazines also were t.eized, • containing a 1111 quantity- el ann - nunition and other effects, belonging to the hostile army. A great num ber Of, wounded were'pieked up in the suburbs. .The opinion of,the inhabitants on-the spot, and deserters, is, that the number of wounded in the batik exceed's $5OO men. "Thus hai terminated the 1".'1,112,1iii) Expedition which was sea t lifter havwg fomented the War in this unhappy`conntry, the Zuglish have ahandonedit. They had diseiribi t iked 39,000 men and 6000 horses. We have taken iron) them, ;.ic cordink to calculation, 6.500 men, exclusive °Vibe sick. They ' have re.einbarked very' little baggage, vary little amm un iti o n, and very few hor ses. We have counted'sooo 4tilled-` and-lett behind. The `men found an asyliim.on board their ves sels are harasJed andsdeje6ted. JIJ anOtilt:r Wisva The facility of cutting ale': bridges, the rapidity Clf.the torrents, whieh -wiuter swell to deep rivers.,' the shortness of the days, and the length a the are very faVourable.to an army on-their retreat. " Of the :38,900 men ‘.vhorn the English had dis einbailted, we may be assured that scarcely ...'?4,000 will return to England. The army of ROMANA, which at the end 'of December, by the aid of reinforcements which it had received from Gallicia, consisted of six teen thousand men, is reduced to less than fiethou sand men, who were ,wandering betwen Vigo, and Santiago, and are clhsely pursued. The Kingdom. of Leon, . i the province of Zamora, and all Gallicia, kvinch the English had been desirous to cover, are conquered and subdued. • " The - Gener'al of DiviEion . LAVlS'Sa has - sent pa triples. into Portugal; who have been well:received there. - " General MAuPETIT has entered Salamanca ; he met there with some sick of the English troops. [At the end of the Bulletin is inserted an intercepted letter, idated Santiago, fan. 1809, *ad Signed L. L. Muni.] SPAIN. . . In the Seville Gazette are recited theirtiel44 . of the capitulation,. of Madrid, prefaced by the 1,410 w ing remarks on the part of the Supreme Junta : . `f Such has, been the capitulation of Madrid And theauthor a it, to cover the crime he bad p. petra ted, has committed another still more criminal, and atrocious ! Miserable man ! The Means he has adopted are found far from adequatelo the end he had in view. He was:the first who bad the au dacity to write to the Secretary oldie War Depart ment, and to flatter him wiqi the pretext of having .effaCted great and signal vicei. for the purpose Of, wing the lives'of titeinhabitantsuf 'Madrid or as 4e, : to his everlasting shame, expresses it, the popo 4frse and the rabble okhe Court. It is necessary that 111": e things should be made known to the faith ltd children of the country, and to the illustrious citi zens of Madrid; .who have yield to compulsion alone. The vigorous., resistance which they wade wai always in opvesikion to the design, which that self-interested General had conceived from the mo ment the enemy approached, Madrid: His design front the first Was to capitulite and deliver, the city to the enemy. Happily a. number of persons who, wei-e apprized of this scandalous capitulation fled fr6m Madrid to acquaint .t.he rest of their gallant cotintiyinen with ,the prodigies ;)fvalodr,pertbrined by the brave inhabitants of that city in resisting the enemy. " Little availed theit,lieroic constancy and ;heir reS011ill(71) to perish, rather. than .open . the gates ,to the French ; he who ought to 'have Contributed to the support of this resolution, secretly contrived its rnin,-L-Few, indeed, arts' ignorant of , the means he . used, r -You will judge, then ) of the validity of the letter he has written with so much subtletF, and which is tilled with so many ,calumnies tllO Secreitiry it War. NOt content with scandalizing ,the . generous people of Madrid; he even attempted to introduce to want of confidence in the noble English nation; he has suggested distrust in that same - nation which has heaped so many benefits upon us, as not to lenN the least doubt of its ultimate and gennine-objeCi .being that of establishing the most lasting and sacred friendship.between'England and Spain. To outrage: friends so kind and generous is certainly a 'horrid crime, worthy only of the perfidy of.that man whose' conduCt we abhor ; 'especially at a time when the City. of London is raising sum:, of, tunn'ey for our. support; When the vessels of the English are con 7 yp.ying in safety our property.. from America so:our slkoits ; and when, as it will'appear in the nexL,Ga zette, that the EngliSb Cabinet 11: given the most indubitable proof of its real friendship for Spain in, rejecting the negotiations offeted Ahem byJiutalot-i PARTE, 06 result only of his artifice and cunning.: . "' How can we judge' therwise of a man, .who concludes his cajoling epistle with the circumstance of having- seen JOSEPH, and, conferring upon him the tale of a pftuasuphical King; a title that has ticz ver been bestow 4 upon any, exceptingthe greatest and.niost illustrious .K.ings of antiquity. We may be gxcused front occupying any larger space, in ex posing the pretexts of a person so manifestly pro , stitutoll as the flatterer a a tyrant and an usurper. And yet this miserable wretch pretends to the cha racter of a true Spaniard, and says he is actuated by the goodof his country ! Reatilik letters,,and let this alone form the standard of his crimes and caluinny." " frrer:Alletion end cntif - ti-ion of the Junta was, increased by the i'ury of the populace; and the' diver-, sity of opinion arnong its inenibers. But the occu- : pation, of. all the posts by the-enerny, the want of ammunition, the "loss of seven' piet cs of artilleiy, and the greater 'part of the meta that v. , r‘rked Ike guns; the exhausted condition of the few troops that remained, :it - el . .. , loaryst all of skin new recruits, were 'ail sttetig again .toily ftirtft&t, resi, t- But liak.v" t/s co r )itulate agaiet the vqc6 of the Ilere ;Ix . Idrigth out with - YRIA4TE. to freat with the Prince of Neufchatel, though pothing acid been determined on; and we 'were obli•ged previoutily to inform the populace that we Were charged to ai i n o tu ice to the enemy our de termi nation 'to defend Om selveS to the last extremity. " Before the house ot. the Barefooted Carmelites we found ail Lnsign, who conducted us half way on the road to Chartukten, Where four tents were erected in the ceotre of a large encampment, where also a night guard was posted. In the foremost Of these teats welound the. General, to whom we presented ourselves, and in formed bin) of our snuatien with resiTet to thd' populace, On whose account we were not 'able to tie eevle to any capitulation, but could only &Maud' a suspension of arms for the follnWtng daY, for the purpose of bringing the people to 'reason, and. thus to prevent the well'-cliipos:eil pdople limn victims to the mate. 'The Prince 'ivont, out of his tent, saying, he would speak i to The Empe-. Tor,. and' returning soon after, emulated ,us,to his tent. We repeated whit; wry hail before said to the Prince ; ,herauswered us as a Liero and..Cunqueror, apparently irritated with the ignorance and tenacil y of the people Of Math id. rite only to gain 'time_ beyond:six to-morrow . morning but assemble the' parish priests •and the'prelates, acid let them -know, that it they. donut convince and 00.3 - - , come the pit...lndices of the people, they iball Tesponsible i..r thea) j adding, f that without, ex posing his troops any fnrther, he would blow' Ma drid up in the air.' LETTER OP GENERAL DOW TOMAS NORIA, TO DON ANTONIO CuRNEL J SECRETARY not TUE WAR DE PARTMENT. " Mo3l` ENCCLLENT SCIONOR, " I, never supposed .that this city could possibly make any defence otherwise t against a sudden in cursion, or coup de niain,--Tins I represented to your Excellency, and to the President of the Qouncil, and . that it was chimerical to think Of resisting an army, consequently I arranged the measures of ,de uerr. With the artillery, consisting. of more.than thirty pieces of cannon, I caused all the powder to be brought from Carabanchel, and fornied tOur depots; three.of ari inferior order in the convents, - -and the principal one in the Museum. In these i distri buted the fusils in several divisions; Jmt the populace broke in and seized them, many. for the 'purpose •of selling them •at a low price, or to conceal theM in their houses: they likewise seized upon several thousand cartridges.' I afterwards ,causect se‘Scral, works to be thrown up in the.streets.' IlieAroOps were then distributed, at various placers,' the,cavatry only being left at the principal points as a reserve, each of them under the charge of a General, A number of people Of all classes were upon the point of emigrating from this city, and I believe .that.few decent people would have: remained, bad they riot been stopped by the populace at the bar riers. They were also influenced _by the fear of 1 . 111:- jug into the hands of the .enemy, Much I believe happened to several of them. e‘i s soon.as the defeat at Somosierra was kno:.-yo here, I sent out. several parties to reconnoitre the enemy, who succuasively brought me lioticv. lira! We nxturn4 to ?Madrid :,11.1(1 conr,•oked as many of tlw Tribuntitt, .Aoti.niritirs, the auxiliary Arch biihop, Priests and l'relates, wt , , a - l oug h many were abs:!ii!, the 4').4SClrlbly litialer(;(l3 and Csl,llttrai: , os. They t s.viO4 tltts opeiny upon ju,,t-atid tt..11:1 , ,, :Ind not to controliea by tboie precribed t.ty At length, finding thttt b'ith th , ..!'peojito :ILO& the troops' had witildrii'vva !rain t !lc materics and retired to their houses, w,ah by oo nit-atis diliposeti to act faith, it Was general : were accortlittl7 dra %yr). I'vll4l , : .„ oh I ,\l:'.o.tia. At . .. i; IL ;,' to Prince, t 1,V,„ ; w ere ofdt,rf,:j ~.:, ~ I ~ tliCy WC te• ia( ak, ilt.CCMenaagi ceived :o;:• carral.. The rear •of the en e my the n ex t - morn i ng t granted wli, .h occupied the heights above the positions of Bar- pittilar7on is •a• i; !,, Pozos, and. Fuencin•ral. . • ;'t percel- "At Iwo o'clock, being summtiried at the :Port " ;••_.,•00-•• •:: de Lis POzoa, tnysi.'lf and the- Marquis de Citsi•e:r.mi. • nedsev.::..; ,.; Neat forwacd„ anti declared, thci we world defend able character, l„: ; ,, . the .plac to the last extremity. \Ve hadbegan to ;„ •:,, ; t fie from our ont-posts early in. the morning, and \ lost , aniithat • , •, eontiourd the saipe with some intermission, the ' cruelty of whole ifav and part of the.eVening at , the different 'prefer the • points, but the enemy having extended and pushed and the'residence of the • • „ s s 1:1roag - kevery aveunc„,occupied positions which in ; I had already done at •C:2 -t••• : • • ( 1, manlier surrounded us. I had previously sent an here a prisoner of war,- L:Hi •;! Odive officer to bring back the troops that were col- good I have procnred for. t oi,,, feted from Heredia „aod .st. Juan; and, I also dis ; , • " Having completed my accx,nrint of ihe tor, flrt:. patched a Cabinet Courier with dispatches, pressing nate result of 4hc, charge with which I the necessity of this movement,. blit ,these were in- truited by the Supreme J 00 ta,..1 have only to add, tereeNed by••the enemy.. ~. as being F.ortisularly intereited in the good bf • " A Junta. was formed,. composed, of Generals nati oo , that I believe it 'would be most and one or ,_two Members ql, „each Council, the thereorki fur the J ante to gi,Te the Goveinor Corregidor, and.'Others, whose sittings were perma- to understand, with proper reserve,•that the -; •.1 nut. They a(led ,for the Government.hot it civil : ought nor to be permitted to era forts in t and military, .- - ,Before this . Junta Lwas summoned its environs. They are• insensibly iocreosilig on` the third, .sy of the investment; when. I was numbers. They •make use of dissimnlation to con 'shewn a-summpris from the Prince of!seal the ohy'a: of their Matitithe views. In ere6.thl who signed himself :chief of the. Staff a prof ..that i new works about 'Cadiz, 1 Vey- have no motive 'but 'the Emperor commanded. It was brought thy, an that of enabling them to resist the French with . meie ;Officer made prisoner - ali,SoMosterra, who assured us. . • ;that hehad spoked :but, this was not credit. ", Let )he Governor cif G,ltliz reinforce „his cd, and the Offico.w.as, looked npon as a sl,lSpieto4j 6011 5-let him send dispatches to the Indit'it. perf.on. The Juotas, are al l ways stow in their de- vent Ahem from disposing of 1 ,, ! •erty, or • ~ tibere ion ; t hey urged that no answvr eouldbe given tho of the English. Bth;nit Chi and the ' , their. .on,•:;ver . . terMinited " Ai.edmitienor cif State, ye" , ferday in ,i„tetineting a suspension of Arnts for ,that day.. , diked to :Prince .iosepri, our intend e d Mona; -l}, T•rv)i' enemy then reiinmed his attack at every the ob . jecl-of the Sarcasms of the popialace, ;,!, ~ p Oint with the iiiinost intr e pidity and • liigcrur. lle I assure you, 'with all that ti•anktiess that . .fir st broke in through the Iletiro, which required ten me, that I, found him r. judir:ions ..• th ou ituf euenibr its defence and afterwards,. in. and even an enthusiast in -• the !•,,. snore siisioti, through the gates of Alcala, Iteeoletts, ,, maxims of motalify huirianity, ai.d • ;!., Sze. in spite' of the obstinate resistance which , the people over' When he is deqined •te met with at every-point. • • H 'My good opinion may possibly be Su " Having Occupied the whole of the: Prado with those who 'do not know 'me wall. ~‘lany'rna, o s a large force,Ahe Fiencll• began t o extend through ' to suppres's It my only viLty in tints th e streets of Ncala, Carriera, de St• Geronitno, artier ing my sentiments is, that the Junta ro . Amelia.. Our artillery and. the troops had previously gn.ote hait• , Tittnre crinlina and reoilati, .171 posted themselves behind sonic of the .strongest cottraribl4 .-With this - intellience. The works thrown up in these streets. Th e balls and my talents and abilities shall in twore be. ex'cro: d hr grim Ides of :the. enemy; struck the gate* Del Sol, isopport of the honour, the peramatpe,'.ind ihe and tilled the principal 'streetS with ruins. The tegrity of -the country. A grioii (;.t-1 - •:1, trier peas:nits in 'great •consternaiion bevan to ; the , ing ch,:posed •of .his army in en ';:ctlini, origin cavalry also, consideratily✓ renuced, tied in the even- i know the preciSe mo;ll,iit'.‘vhen lie should - char t , , , ;fig. all parts troops and„ ammuniti o n were d e - or ' retreat, and never expose to tho , man'ded i.l vain. In-this conflict,: which seemed of being completely routed. Tile one would to tin - eaten the approaching ruin tel the whole city, 1 grace him—the other would !cover we again received notice of another somm ons from •: The di6,ulty is for hint.: to know do.: evoi po.:it the street De Alcala. CASTRLAkt, VittAarE, and from' whera:e4e i to.takehisdeternnoetio;l : myself, immediately repaired I to the spot, where we shall oot.wrong myself so tar as to Stl:`o , r;', found a General-and,au EnSign belonging to the Ern , any of t,Le . `.natiott will , flipe&l petrol', who came tosuintnoo the lust time, probity is' known and acknowledged:, ;;1 and complained that no Getieral„ had been sent bYns I have always been in rite habit with an answer to the proposals made by'the. Prince j candoUr of every affeir itt which I 1: ;.•.• of Neufchatel. Wep.oinised to send two. persons c e• rne o," ; • !!. • :.• with an anawer that evening, and in the mean " Alladrid i Dec. 7.7 k .while we demanded a suspension of alms., which N T . : WaS grantyd. " Dan TomAs Mott CA, author of Now i eatest (lialchlty was .to restrain the :ter, and of the capitulation w; :„':: • fury of.the .wlio.cominued their exclaim- that false and corrupt Chief vrho : • ! , , . tions to ;: die. At my teturn I found con- mat inn to the City of Cadiz aid SiticnitL: :•:y my' answer at one the bth . inst, addressed to the :Nichols o. e.t• • ..,„1 ‘..._•ve the - first to ; by -whosefertkr Int otO'it . , • •were op.. S:101::!, Itt order that this c:.r..;tiinstiineri - c , :•on the toWer ^ j rate to the prejudice, of any inner pO•spn," • of Sattta uppo• in ••• • . the sasHa ,;0•1. wcre tonti divided on this ; the 10:Cili,“ , V O r : i' , UrinLireia was wno approved' of • k''•; N AVAL N EW S. . , ~ ~ . - • PLYmour I .—A rriv ed the ()town, Yi,o- LAND,:II'OIII' New Bruitsw;eli, with matts, to'fiontiott ; the Swthiisit Ship G'zihttelz, from. StockhOlm, witlt t:tr, bound it) the liritz;.,.; and tint Britvinia Tender, trout the irk'ot Bochefort,-Avith:Dilpaiches. ' • Arriv,M f try= Part/ ialt Sloop of- Wur, fro;il crti).ze..: .POItriMOUTH O FEB: I , ack his Ship ,I3riliiant into `ll" ,. . , rbay,boilild tti the Britz;i::,, Q g-,,:thezilwitli the Covoy. ,4 .rrive.l the :Jacob ; with the of A Li c,r /Ai Seville, Aid, NiNtsliANv , iiinilt(r Young #'ltsan, PEAR 0 N';' 'hag Vigo. Livtitecibt.Y , ,Fan.- 'letter recoived . from'Cork;--divted*LiBth .that a r j 11 0 ,1 atri‘vt at AVillittingtou, from Wil!'arupgtthl (h broke the embargo), with '7oo t>trruli of turpentine, for Liverpool. YARMOUTH, FEB. 2.--Sailed Itig.ivt f ity,ty SifirS Croekoilile; 'enlypso, liichozood, 43,jtuv, ,;(,ark, an a crui4e.---Arrivel l.tiy Majesty', brig 1,.!-- dignaut, from a ernize.„ anti remains in the. Bimis 'with his Majesty's ships Poetuek,Agiqcowt, cess Cal aline, Sl4l:elq, 'Chanticleer ; Royalist, Heart/, and. ve'ssels-got on shore on &Toby Sand last ini , ,tlr o f w io c i l got oilj the other:4, V:7, the Beiks;??ire, both of and flan Shields, with 1:0. • , for Loudon, - and another, naino tit , kowsvn, ,;tt• 'totally lost, DcAt„ Fat. 2.- , Arrived the R01 , 0 , t Trioliart, from Lisbon and Quit after ciptured, carried into Calak, grt ; 011 op. from Now Providenco, tor i Inn; been captured by a lereneh Pri%atecl, r .t and.earried into Tit we have • • adverting..tn•uvery thing Colt tno , of thii ct uotiy, vt are gratitl,4l,in the 0pp ,,, .10;',, of noticing Mr. ACKitialAN's tli s f ' t.ltiauOlictur es . , and , /easi?iutts ; work IL'it ittul et ticgrce ,than 'we Voducticm ' for a long r!..1 - tod. bile they aro ealculat tf? cad ;often UK,: mind h eleg4tll cE it ttlin with a fitock oil GAIN ii;XCIIAVA'Gr,', FEB, 3.7.1 1 0:e i 5 btu' a `6l)ort supply of Wl.4t4tt to.,day, tl.lt tuity iqu d tt, 0„.., mand, and thereof it t.l.:111 1:1i10 Val price; llArley in plenty,. 311t1 Cilt.ipt`r ; ‘.4 - .' POil3t! Beans of both soli s .:; :icatcely pvices ; Nevi; '.l.leloi about 503, to 55 , 4. Oats are alsj in shoit stypik, and 541 , ..:s thv,if! ,Flour hardly supports the con,,,gicv.,